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Mandarin · pinyin chū shí

to meet (sb) for the first time; to encounter (a place, an idea etc) for the first time

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初: chū · beginning, initial, primary
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识: shí · shì · recognize, understand, know

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1–2 · chu1 shi2

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verb

to meet for the first time; to have just met

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